#16 offer one higher density view – ability to see 10-15 different articles in one screen without scrolling (via Sean)

#17 ability to view and post disqus comments

Any preference? Anything else?

[Update Monday 21:43pm] #7 seems to have some traction. If you are are for #7 and would like to see more user control, let us know if you have suggestions on what kind of knob you would like to see added to give you more control over how the flow of information is being filtered.

[Update Tuesday 1:00pm] Thanks for all the feedback. Will let the pool open for a couple more days and then summarize all the comments into a single compact list. We very much appreciate the community input: It removes a lot of the guessing. Thank you!

I vote for (in no particular order) #3, #7, and #10, the latter being some sort of help with managing large numbers of feeds. Perhaps a “mark as read anything older than X days” or some such option for the times when I get way behind in my reading. A more intuitive way of managing the feeds might be good too–wading through my entire list of feeds to mark things one by one is cumbersome. Perhaps a way to select multiple feeds and/or a whole category and doing a mass update/unsubscribe/whatever?

‘You Might Also Like’ feature so that I can discover more content based on the feeds I like. Would like to see more suggested sites and a ‘back’ feature so that if I click on it and don’t like it I can return to where I was.

‘Top Recommender feature’ not enough info given for me to know who I might want to follow. What would be nice would be a percentage next to each name to show how similar their collection of feeds were to mine. The higher the number the more likely I would be to follow.

I would suggest working on focusing on #6 to develop Feedly as accessible platform from anywhere (whether home, work, or mobile device) and from any browser.

I would actually give this priority over developing for the iPhone (why develop for one platform when you can develop for all) and Chrome (again same principle of developing for all platforms instead of a specific one).

Feedly already does everything I want, it would only be better if it were faster. And, but maybe this is just me, if it kept the same sidebar with full sources across all pages. It’s annoying to keep going back to latest to see what else is new.

A nitpick about the new version: I dislike the way the category disappears from the sidebar once all articles have been marked ‘read.’ I would prefer the category remain so I can return to it easily for browsing it if I wanted to.

I really appreciate what Feedly is doing. Two other humble suggestions:

1. I agree with James: categories should remain in the sidebar whether or not there are any unread posts in them. perhaps the ones with unread items are simply in bold.

2. My Twitter feed shouldn’t be available only through the Digest page. Ideally, I’d like an option to show my Twitter feed on the right sidebar on ANY page I’m on. But short of that, there should also be a button on the new left-side menu for a dedicated Twitter feed page.

Finally, Edwin — you mentioned to Rob, above, that there is an option in Preferences to hide the number of unread count. I’m just not seeing it. Could you be more specific?

#7 is interesting.
#9 is important. Rate it as a B priority.
If #10 is done, I want to be able to opt out.

#2 and #4 are C priorities — nice to do.

Not a fan of the self-selection based on Twitter or other networks for the same reason Pandora loses me every couple of months. I don’t want similar sounds — I want to explore.

Some sort of relevancy related to user activity would be really great. If X users regularly read blogs ABC and DEF, but I’m only subscribed to ABC, recommend it as a push to me and (the Netflix/Amazon lesson here) say why.

#7 I’m in great need of sort of intelligent feed ranking/filtering based on history of recommendations, tweets and link clicks. With hundreds and hundreds of feeds, it would be very useful to have an update to the dashboard that was much more informative than the current system. Maybe 3 points for a recommendation and 1 pt for a link click.

I’ll echo the above sentiments that movement toward a version accessible from anywhere would certainly address some of the other options proposed (iPhone, Android, IE, Chrome versions) in one fell swoop. It may not be the same as a native app for iPhone in particular, but if implemented well, it won’t matter much.

Here are the one I’m the most interested in :
3,7,9 : Mainly those three
5,8,
10 : I’d really like to have a confirm box when I clik on “Mark as read” with the possibility to define in the settings “Display confirmation box if you are discarding more than X articles” (X as an input field) OR even better an undo option (I know google API doesn’t allow it but maybe could you make it by yourself).

What I’d also like to see in Feedly :
– Multiple Twitter accounts
– It could be intersting to turn Feedly into a more social client (one page for tweets, one for FB notifications…)
– integration with Growl notifications

One thing I miss most from using Google Reader directly is the ‘Previous item’ and ‘Next item’ buttons. These made it so easy to quickly scroll through feeds while keeping the content in the same position on the screen. Having to click the next feed, particularly when it keeps moving about the page, can be quite tiresome, and could be the one thing that takes me back to using Google Reader directly. Everything else about feedly I love.

Hi Andy. I would like to better understand your usage pattern. Have you tried to use the latest view and leverage some keyboard shortcuts (you can type ? in feedly to see the complete list of keyboard shortcuts).

#7 sounds good, I think the one thing I miss the most having moved from Google Reader to Feedly (yesterday), is the ability to see at a glance how many unread items there are remaining. In Feedly, the amount of unread articles isn’t really prominent information, unless you go to the dashboard which is more like a maintenance view.

The other thing I’d like is to be able to pick which Google Finance portfolio gets displayed, as currently Feedly just takes the first one from Finance, and there’s no way to re-order them over there.

#10
I would love to see a version for windows mobile (opera browser).
I do love the explore feature, but would like to see it more often (like on the category pages).
It would also be great if we could get sub-categories as a single layer of categories tend to get a bit cluttered.

F.D. Have you tried to visit the feedly dashboard http://www.feedly.com/home#dashboard and use drag and drop to create categories (as you start to drag a subscription, you will see a popup window appear which will allow you define new categories or re-use existing once).

In terms of navigation I see the sidebar categories having a little arrow for collapsing or displaying the subcategories along the side (possibly even being able to further and actually display the sources – which might be a good idea in general). When you go to the main digest page it would display as it does now showing the top and recommended articles from every category. Going to a category would be a digest of the subcategories. Going to a subcategory would be a digest of its sources.

This type of organization would bring Feedly closer in line with magazines. In my opinion it also makes organizing my sources easier.

2/5/7/11 – I’d group these four under a general enhancement of recommendation & topic tracking. In particular, I’d like to see more sophisticated trending/recommended/reading-habits analysis, which could be shown both on tracking pages or on “snack” pages of the 20-30 “most relevant” articles.

3 – Feedly for the iPhone. Yes, please!

8 – If you could include just the microblog content with links, that might be interesting. Might also be something to supplement my first priority (above).

12 – Yeah, there’s probably some interesting potential in making Feedly more social. Could be cool.

Also, it’d be nice if the FriendFeed sharing function allowed for selecting images to be added to the FF post.

Oh and, yes, if #10 gets implemented, I’d like to be able to opt out, too, or to be able set a very long “expiration” date.

Once I’m logged into my Google account and I’ve got Feedly running, I’d rather not have to open another tab in Firefox to add feeds to Google Reader. I’d rather do it right from Feedly where I am already reading content and finding new feeds I want to add.

I imagine the same feature as a mobile option would also help greatly, and might be a subset of #3.

Seriously, I’m a little bit disappointed by the absence of tabs for the saved content. I use RSS-reader to not only read, but to collect articles, pictures, links and so on. And if I found the psychology article in my Feedly “News” category, it’s still extremely convenient to be able to save it with the “psychology” tag…

After tags, my favorites are : #12, 13, 8, 2.

And it would be great to have a clearer reminders for the feeds I’m not reading for a long time – something like a “Missed” section, where the most popular posts from my forgotten feeds are gathered.

“what kind of knob you would like to see added to give you more control over how the flow of information is being filtered”

1)option to turn on/off each thing on the right sidebar

2)counter of unread articles per category somewhere – preferably in the index on the right sidebar, in the same place where you can mark feed as read

3)keyboard shortcut to “mark as read and hide” for articles

4)shortcut “mark as read” not only for single artice but also for selected feed/view/category

5)not only “refresh” on the cover but also “mark as read” cause without it refresh is useless

6)develop dashboard -> some better stats, not only “means that you have not read any articles from that source for the last 30 days and that it has more than 250 unread articles”

I’ve never had 250 unread articels form one source, I’ve never had 250 unread at all… and still I would like to have some option to find with feeds are more useful for me, which are the one I don’t need etc.

“Once I’m logged into my Google account and I’ve got Feedly running, I’d rather not have to open another tab in Firefox to add feeds to Google Reader. I’d rather do it right from Feedly where I am already reading content and finding new feeds I want to add.”

Rayne, why can’t you add feeds from feedly now? There is “add source” and you can use button in the address bar, right ?

– Allow users to share articles with Diigo (like delicious)
– Allow follower to suscribe with the sharing articles by tag, or by list (allow to filter the sharing sources) / or allow to create groups followers

I’m up for #7 and then #5, in this order!
But one thing I missed while using feedly was the possibility to create new categories at the Dashboard view (maybe I’m just a newbie that doesn’t know how to do it though).
Anyway, feedly is great work! :)

I’d like two things:
– A page where all my twitters friends’ submissions are being listed (like microplaza), also an icon showing how many tweets a particular article have scored in my friends list near articles’ titles,
– The email form of the mini-feedly applet to stop being displayed so low it makes the “post” button unavailable to click upon.

#8 would be great and expanding with twitter and facebook would only make feedly more popular.
#11 always curious as to what others are reading, what might be important that I’m missing.
#12 see no. 11.
#14 I love the tagging feature in Google Reader, so bringing that (or some version of it) over would be helpful!

i was thinking that integrating some popular IM apps would be a great addition. I find myself opening articles, shortening the link with bit.ly, then copy/pasting into IM messages to send to friends/family. It would be great to that do that the same i way i might tweet or email an article.

#3 (Feedly app for iPhone) has my vote. However, given how much time and effort app development takes, I’m in favor of optimizing and refining the Feedly Firefox experience before moving into this realm. It’s no doubt much easier to implement and test new iterations of Feedly via Firefox extension, than go through the arduous process of submitting to the App Store (plus having to wait for users to update their apps, test, give feedback via the limited and clunky App Store interface…etc.).

In that vein, my votes go to #13 (skin support — with the request that skins be packageable and shareable; perhaps offer a skin upload/download center on the Feedly site, with user ratings and comments, etc.); #7 (better layout and filtering logic — I would like to have total control over exactly what elements are shown, and where, on the page and in tabs, a la iGoogle homepage); #10 (mark articles X days old as read; multi-unsubscribe); and #16 (higher density article view).

I actually like the list in its current ordering where #1 is highest priority. One thing not listed that I would like to see (and that gReader doesn’t do) is duplicate article removal. If a story is really ‘hot’ I can see it being re-shared over and over again. It would be nice if I share or read a post, that Feedly remembers and doesn’t display it again (or maybe just displays a comment if there is one).

#5: Create a new interface…
#3: (modified) Make feedly available… I’d like to see a Safari version along with iPhone app.
#17: Ability to view disqus comments… I’d like to see support for co-comment and intensedebate also (esp. intensedebate)
#18: Integration with ShareThis

Hi Franklin. The latest version includes 3 grid layouts. Narrow, medium, wide. The medium matches the old layout with the bar at the top. To see it simply resize the window to 1100px (feedly automatically adapts the layout to the width of the page).

Is there a way to turn of the background that I’m not aware of? It’s not ascetically pleasing, and makes the sidebar stuff hard to read. I prefer the previous feedly over this one. This one needs some work. BTW, I love feedly. Completely switch over from Netvibes.

Preferences 3, 13 and I prefer the navigation back at the top where it was rather than the left side. It seems somehow more phyically natural to slide the mouse than up and to the left.
Just ever so slightly larger buttons for “Mark as Read” etc.
I heart feedly.

8, 17 and 16.
if 7 is meaning giving a post a view style dependent on its content then that one too.
I use Disqus a lot and I would like to see more integration with Tumblr just because that is my main method of sharing.

I love the explore feature, but I see it randomly and mostly targetted to high traffic blogs – not quite sure ow it really works.

I’d love to see some suggested reading that matches my other feeds – not just related to currently reading articles. Maybe some sort of ppl reading this feed also read…etc so I can expand my reading sources.

#10 Mark as read anything older than x days. Multi-unsubscribe (see Comment from Gerald)
– been wanting this for a while for my Google Reader… which I almost never use now cause of Feedly!

#11 add a popular section with the list of most recommended articles during the last 24/48 hours (see Don’s comment) – see the popularity of Instapaper and Give Me Something to Read (this should be comparatively easier to implement, no?)

#3 Make feedly available on the iphone – personally would LOVE this option… right now I use “Feeds” on my iPhone to link up with GReader but I don’t think its ideal… I imagine this would require a whole lotta work to fit the smaller screen… on the plus side I think you could easily monetize via this way with an app in the $3-5 range